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NCLEX Nutrition
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nursing
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health-fitness-nutrition
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?
can consume more calories without weight gain
starches - sugars - and cellulose
antioxidant - wound healing - hormone synth
sleep - fasting - starvation - undernutrition
2. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?
one week period
low albumin levels < 3.4
obesity - heart disease - and some cancer
oxygen consumption and rate of burned calories to determine exact caloric requirements
3. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?
pregnant women or elderly
day week or month
vitamin K
fruits - vegetables - milk and grains
4. Concentrated sources of energy poviding 9 calories/gram
fats
animal products - egg yolk - organ meat - butter - cheese - vairous oils
one week period
pork - wheat germ - fortified cereals - Vitamin B1 thiamin deficient
5. What lab value shows iron stores of visceral body protein?
atrophy or wasting of muscle
transferrin
3 cups
milk - enriched grains
6. Sources of fats
animal products - egg yolk - organ meat - butter - cheese - vairous oils
vegetable oil - peanuts - margarine
atrophy or wasting of muscle
antioxidant - wound healing - hormone synth
7. Where can you find good sources of vitamin K?
liver and intestinal synthesis
meat - fish poultry - eggs and dairy
obesity - heart disease - and some cancer
one week period
8. Promote normal metabolism - and prevent this nutrient from being used for energy
antioxidant - immune function
antioxidant - wound healing - hormone synth
trans fatty acid
protein
9. What blood levels are checked for decrease in iron?
trans fatty acid
antioxidant - wound healing - hormone synth
hemoglobin
essential amino acids
10. How much grains are to be eaten per day?
hemoglobin
6 oz. a day
one week period
vitamin C - citrus fruits
11. What does DASH stand for?
niacin B3 - peanuts - legumes - enriched grains
vitamin C - citrus fruits
dietary approach to stop hypertension
low albumin levels < 3.4
12. If patient. has beriberi - or wernicke korsakoff syndrome what type of foods would be needed?
decrease in total lymphocyte count
vision - bone - tissue growth -immune and reproductive function
pork - wheat germ - fortified cereals - Vitamin B1 thiamin deficient
obesity - heart disease - and some cancer
13. What foods are needed for this deficiency of nutritional anemia - or neural tube defects?
fish - nuts and vegetable oils
folic acid - orange juice - meat - green leafy veg
calcium/phophorus metabolism - PTH - kidney
fats
14. What illness is a direct result of vitamin D deficiency?
transferrin
3 cups
dark green - orange - drybeans
rickets - osteomalacia
15. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?
vitamin K
4 calories/gram
meat - fish poultry - eggs and dairy
carrots and sweet potatoes
16. What water soluble vitamins are easily excreted from body?
sleep - fasting - starvation - undernutrition
fats
liver and intestinal synthesis
B and C
17. When does BMR increase?
TPN total parenteral nutrition
infants - children - pregnant or lactating
B and C
activity - stress - temperature - pregnancy - smoking - caffeine - growth spurts
18. What type of fat is to kept to an all time low for consumption?
trans fatty acid
fish - nuts and vegetable oils
pork - wheat germ - fortified cereals - Vitamin B1 thiamin deficient
TPN total parenteral nutrition
19. What foods are good if patient. is vitamin A defecient and/or suffer from night blindness or xeropthalmia?
5.5 ounces/day
300 cal/day increase
animal foods - fruits - veg - fortified milk
infection - skin lesion - amenorrhea and sensitive to cold environment
20. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?
antioxidant - wound healing - hormone synth
day week or month
vitamin K
fish - nuts and vegetable oils
21. How much more calories are needed for lactation?
day week or month
decrease in total lymphocyte count
500 cal/day
pregnant women or elderly
22. How much meat/beans should be eaten?
pork - wheat germ - fortified cereals - Vitamin B1 thiamin deficient
day week or month
antioxidant - wound healing - hormone synth
5.5 ounces/day
23. What foods have high quality protein?
protein and fat
meat - fish poultry - eggs and dairy
obesity - heart disease - and some cancer
niacin B3 - peanuts - legumes - enriched grains
24. Insufficient intake of carbohydrate results in these two nutrients being used as energy
500 cal/day
carrots and sweet potatoes
protein
protein and fat
25. What is normal albumin levels?
rickets - osteomalacia
dark green - orange - drybeans
milk - enriched grains
3.5-5.5 grams/dL
26. Waist circumference correlates apple versus pear body type and reflects risk pattern for disease
apple is higher risk than a pear
vision - bone - tissue growth -immune and reproductive function
hemoglobin
cream cheese - cream or butter
27. What clinical administration is used and checked by albumin - prealbumin - and transferrin and overall nutrtion?
protein
vegetable oil - peanuts - margarine
TPN total parenteral nutrition
2.5 cups
28. Fats can lead to some medical problems
obesity - heart disease - and some cancer
review of systems
trans fatty acid
can consume more calories without weight gain
29. When does BMR decrease?
hemoglobin
carrots and sweet potatoes
fats
sleep - fasting - starvation - undernutrition
30. Where can you find good sources of vitamin E?
TPN total parenteral nutrition
2.5 cups
antioxidant - immune function
vegetable oil - peanuts - margarine
31. Where can you get more vitamin D?
one week period
3.5-5.5 grams/dL
dairy and fortified foods
day week or month
32. What type of people need extra protein?
prealbumin levels
dietary approach to stop hypertension
infants - children - pregnant or lactating
dairy and fortified foods
33. What function is vitamin A?
2 cups
review of systems
vision - bone - tissue growth -immune and reproductive function
essential amino acids
34. How long should a food record or journal is analyzed for nutrient content?
infants - children - pregnant or lactating
3.5-5.5 grams/dL
protein
one week period
35. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?
3.5-5.5 grams/dL
300 cal/day increase
fruits - vegetables - milk and grains
antioxidant - immune function
36. Name six sources of grains
0.8 grams/kg/day or 10%
bread - pasta - oatmeal - cereal - tortilla - and grits
dairy and fortified foods
diet recall
37. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?
oxygen consumption and rate of burned calories to determine exact caloric requirements
infants - children - pregnant or lactating
one tspn salt or less
3.5-5.5 grams/dL
38. What is the function of vitamin C?
infection - skin lesion - amenorrhea and sensitive to cold environment
day week or month
antioxidant - wound healing - hormone synth
liver and intestinal synthesis
39. What color vegetables are to be consumed more of?
vision - hormones - healing - collagen - and growth
2 cups
atrophy or wasting of muscle
dark green - orange - drybeans
40. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?
4 calories/gram
2 cups
hemorrhage
3.5-5.5 grams/dL
41. The higher the BMR a client has --
can consume more calories without weight gain
fat soluble vitamins
sleep - fasting - starvation - undernutrition
liver and intestinal synthesis
42. What is the function of vitamin E?
liver and intestinal synthesis
can consume more calories without weight gain
vitamin C - citrus fruits
antioxidant - immune function
43. If patient. is deficient with this vitamin - what foods will help scurvy or bleeding gums?
antioxidant - immune function
vitamin C - citrus fruits
6 oz. a day
2.5 cups
44. How much milk is to be consumed per day?
3 cups
infection - skin lesion - amenorrhea and sensitive to cold environment
500 cal/day
essential amino acids
45. Protein stores show short term changes of which lab value
rickets - osteomalacia
prealbumin levels
sleep - fasting - starvation - undernutrition
cream cheese - cream or butter
46. If protein stores become depleted which can neagatively affect immune system of which lab value
one tspn salt or less
antioxidant - wound healing - hormone synth
decrease in total lymphocyte count
albumin levels
47. What function is vitamin D?
folic acid - orange juice - meat - green leafy veg
18-25
calcium/phophorus metabolism - PTH - kidney
4 calories/gram
48. How much vegetables are to be eaten per day?
antioxidant - immune function
B and C
2.5 cups
can consume more calories without weight gain
49. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins
4 calories/gram
fat soluble vitamins
meat - fish poultry - eggs and dairy
one tspn salt or less
50. If fat intake is insufficient then expect these medical problems
vegetable oil - peanuts - margarine
fat soluble vitamins
infection - skin lesion - amenorrhea and sensitive to cold environment
antioxidant - immune function